Wednesday September 17, 2014

Want to make a little (bit)coin on the side? Track down hackers and thieves for bounties. I can just see hackers turning on each other for the money as we speak.

Last spring, he placed a bitcoin bounty on his Hotmail hacker. And now, he’s crowdsourcing the idea, so others can offer similar bounties when they’re victimized. He just launched a website called Bitcoin Bounty Hunter that pays for information leading to the conviction of the perps behind several prominent bitcoin hacks.